The Oxford Handbook of Pragmatics

This volume brings together distinguished scholars from all over the world to present an authoritative thorough and yet accessible state-of-the-art survey of current issues in pragmatics. Following an introduction by the editor the volume is divided into five thematic parts. Chapters in Part I are concerned with schools of thought foundations and theories while Part II deals with central topics in pragmatics including implicature presupposition speech acts deixis reference and context. In Part III the focus is on cognitively-oriented pragmatics covering topics such as computational experimental and neuropragmatics. Part IV takes a look at socially and culturally-oriented pragmatics such as politeness/impoliteness studies cross- and intercultural and interlanguage pragmatics. Finally the chapters in Part V explore the interfaces of pragmatics with semantics grammar morphology the lexicon prosody language change and information structure. The Oxford Handbook of Pragmatics will be an indispensable reference for scholars and students of pragmatics of all theoretical stripes. It will also be a valuable resource for linguists in other fields including philosophy of language semantics morphosyntax prosody psycholinguistics and sociolinguistics and for researchers and students in the fields of cognitive science artificial intelligence computer science anthropology and sociology.